Sky Park Hotel Phnom Penh

... festive honking of the horn by the driver. We stopped once after three hours or so for half an hour, no idea where, and I had lunch in a little restaurant. Back on the bus, and another three hours later the bus arrived at the company's office near the river. I got a tuk-tuk south-west to my hotel, situated east of the Olympic stadium. I was shown my room and it was pretty decent. I went back to reception to check in and spoke to a girl who spoke brilliant English, even at times ...

... course. I narrowly missed the flying slime and had i been hit, someone would've gotten real hurt since she was within my arm's length. From the man who almost got vomitted on a few days ago, Pierre thought it was high time that my turn came for mishaps to write home about.<br><br>When we got to the Killing Fields, we decided to get an English-speaking guide (why don't we ever learn, it's easier just to read the signs since their English is usually so accented ...

... level of English. It all worked out anyways because we got to sit in super comfy chairs on a deck overlooking the river behind the popular guesthouse spot and watch a spectacular sunset, one of my favorites on this trip. <br><br>As with most places, we wish we had more time to hang out and get to know the city more. Despite the hustle and bustle the capitol is pretty tame and we felt really comfortable navigating around. There are a ton of NGO's set up here (as in Siem ...

30 July:<br><br>On Thursday we booked a tour to Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Centre, through Lazy Gecko Cafe. The rescue centre is one of the best I've ever seen, and they are constantly improving conditions for the animals. We started out walking through an enclosure with hundreds of long-tailed macaques roaming around freely. "Put on your sunglasses" Sun told us, &#8220;If you look them in the eye, they&#8217;ll think you&#8217;re challenging them ...

... books back to the UK, despite my idea of having a great travelers bookcase with all our lonely planets and books on everywhere we've been. Posting books is too expensive and we can't carry them, so we sold them all for about $2 each to second hand books shops (D's Books and Bohr's Books). We've spent most of the money we got from them on new books already !<br> <br>The Royal Palace and silver pagoda were a bit of a let down ...

... some amazing story of life and death decisions if he ever resurfaces. Meanwhile, he is clubbing and indulging himself it seems.<br><br>And of course the group dynamics of the 9 house members themselves are rather interesting and at times volatile.<br><br>What do you do when bad luck seems to be your constant companion? <br><br>Organise a monk to come and bless the house and everyone in it, of course.<br><br>

... and 1 Swedish and they were all coming to visit him this summer so he was quite in trouble, poor guy!) while we watched Khmer Karaoke songs in the TV or cheesy love movies or an old chinese series starring a magic monkey and pig. Whenever we sat there and drank beer and had a glimpse of the tv the same was on happily followed by a horde of giggling girls working at the guesthouse. Next day the tuktuk drivers friend drove us to the temples (F*** bicycling) which was a much ...